දුව, n. daughter; pl. දුවරු.

දක්‍ෂයා, n. clever person; name of a son of Brahma. He was called දක්‍ෂ because he sprang into being from the right-hand thumb of his father. He had sixty daughters, Next page Back to the Search Page   |   Back to the DDSA Page Charles Carter: A Sinhalese-English dictionary. Previous page Next page -- 273 -- twenty-seven of whom being married to the moon became the twenty-seven lunar mansions; one, දුර්‍ගා, was married to Siva, and thirteen became wives of කාශ්‍යප.

දුස්සීල, a. irreligious, tranagressing religious ordinances, wicked, immoral.

දීගය, n. Kandyan marriage in which the wife goes to live in her husband's house, opposed to බින්න in which the husband lives permanently in the bride's home.

දුර්‍වච, a. speaking ill or with difficulty, නරක ලෙස—අමාරුවෙන්—කථාකරන.

දර්‍ශය, n. sight, seeing, දැකුම; day of the new moon, අලුත් හඳේ දවස; sacrifice on that day.

දාගබ, දාගැබ, දාගොබ, n. Dāgoba, relic-depository, relic-dome, a conical building containing a relic of Buddha's bones.

දිවාකීර්‍තතීයා, n. (දිව·අකී:), low-caste man, චණ්ඩාලයා; barber, පණික්කියා; owl, බස්සා.

දිවාටනයා, n. (අට daytime, අටනයා goer), crow, කපුටුවා.

දිත, n. Asura, titan, demon, අසුරයා.